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"Reclamation Nights" was one image in a batch of several I showed to the editors of Bear Review a year before this issue was published. They loved this image and wanted for a cover, but it didn't exactly fit the nature of the poetry in issue 9.2, so they decided to push it back to 10.1. This began as a personal project and ended up being one of my most loved covers for Bear Review.
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Another personal project-turned-cover for Bear Review. This was another one in the previously mentioned batch I showed to the editors; they decided to take this one for issue 9.2. I saw a 1950s promotional poster or advertisement with a condiment, and I wanted to see if I could recreate it in my own style. And toothpaste, of course.
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"The Study" was formerly the masthead image for my website. The editors for Bear Review asked for the image to be their cover, and I couldn't resist. This image is very much in my realistic surrealism aesthetic style, and I quite enjoy how it came out.
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This cover is for issue 8.2. I wanted to do something completely and totally juxtaposed to the 8.1 cover because I like challenging myself to try different things. I remember driving around rural Missouri in the winter of 2021 and seeing a barn surrounded by nothing but snow. I liked the idea of a lonely winter barn, but I needed something to balance out the stark contrast between the reds and blues. So, I asked myself what the most realistic and unrealistic object would be in this scene. A few different things cycled around before I landed on a light pole. I feel it best completed the scene, and it gave me an easy avenue to incorporate "Bear Review" into the design.
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This is the cover for issue 8.1. The editors loved my first cover design for Bear Review. This is a collaged image of two propaganda posters in the public domain. The dancing shadows and the solemn crowd came in one image, and I knew I needed to use it with something. I ended up finding a stocks-and-bonds poster from the Second World War, edited out the Statue of Liberty, and used the firey hellscape as my background. I loved how the warm colors complemented both the wooden architecture and the funeral-garbed foreground folks.